If you create custom forms using "Account Management", "Request Forms", +New Form, you designate what folder they appear in and which team person is assigned.

Users then click the + in the green circle next to the Wrike logo, choose "Request", select and fill in the appropriate form.

Look to see if you have the + in a green circle on the front side to see if you have that feature in your account. We are using Wrike Enterprise, so I don't know what features are available in other plans.

I'd like to piggyback on this and say that it would be a really nice addition to have the option for tasks to have some defaults set. Personally, I'd like my tasks to have a default assignment but also for the Work Weekend option to be defaulted to on as well.

@Watson, as Gail mentioned, you can configure the working and nonworking days for your whole account from the Account Management page. You will then only need to enable the "Work on Weekends" option for those tasks which are scheduled for the custom weekends you choose :)

I'd like to take a moment to underscore feedback from Dennis Lee and Watson Davis. The bulk of my work is project-based and so is created in the Project pane. I'm a one-man operation and so having all tasks and sub-tasks auto-assign to me by default would save an awful lot of additional clicking. Obviously this wouldn't be suitable for many organizations but it'd be wonderful to have as a Settings option. Thanks!

@David, thank you for sharing your use case! I have a suggestion which could potentially save quite a few clicks: with the help of the Mass Editing feature, you can select all tasks in a Folder/Project and perform actions (such as task assignment) in bulk. Would this option work for you? Happy to answer any questions about it :)

Any plans to implement default task owners yet? It would e.g. be helpful to be able to have the project owner as default task owner if nobody was assigned to a task. If somebody creates a task in a project the project owner should at least be notified if nobody has been assigned to the task.

Hi Beat, thanks for your comment! This isn't something we're working on right now, but it would be great to see this suggestion in the Product Feedback section, so that other users could add their votes to it for our Product Team to see.

I'd like to reiterate what has been addressed so far in this thread. Having an option to define my own default assignee would be incredibly helpful. I was a little surprised that I can auto-assign to myself by creating a task in 'My Work,' and I can automatically set the project by creating the task from within the project, but I can't do both. It seems to me that there would be far fewer uses for creating tasks assigned to nobody.

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Hi Dave, completely understand and thanks for posting. I wanted to check if the solutions provided by Gail abovecould work - so you could use Request forms to create tasks and have an assignee and Folder automatically specified.

Alternatively, like what Anastasia suggested, you could use mass editing to bulk assign to one person. See the GIF below which might help explain this. I like this solution as it's very quick 🙂

I know these are workarounds, but I think they're worth considering and would love to hear your thoughts on this. Either way, we're passing your feedback to the Product Team make sure you've +1ed the original post if you haven't already.

Hi guys, I hear you loud and clear and agree with you, thank you for follow up!

The Product Team are aware of the feedback and will refer to this post when the feature is being looked at for enhancements in the future. Your feedback will, as always, play a big role in those early internal discussions 👍

I'd like to echo the sentiments here. Auto-assign please! Or at least some easy way of assigning to myself. Trello for example allows you to assign to yourself by hovering over a card and tapping the "space" key, and tapping again un-assigns it. Makes it fairly quick and painless.

I primarily use Wrike in "Board" view, and switching over to "List" view to bulk select and assign tasks to myself is a pain, as is the ~6-click process of opening a card/task and assigning it to myself.

@Andy: That's a very helpful shortcut, and I use it frequently. The issue is that I have to already be interacting with the task (creating, viewing, etc) to use that. When creating a bunch of subtasks, I have to either click into each one or change my view and bulk edit.

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+1 - This seems to be one of the biggest hurdles for our new team members coming onboard, who are used to other task based lists for their work where things get auto assigned. A simple setting in a folder, or just a default setting that all your new tasks gets assigned to the task creator would do.